Awards

Swell Sculpture Festival Currumbin RSL Peoples' Choice Award  2004, 2006, 2008, 2014 & 2018
Swell Sculpture Festival Griffith University School of Humanities Kids' Choice Award 2012,  2013 & 2018
Swell Sculpture Festival Smalls Gallery Peoples' Choice Award 2006, 2012, 2014 & 2015
Swell Sculpture Festival Peer Award 2015
​Darcy Doyle Boomerang Farm Peoples' Choice Award  2014
Marymount College Art Competition Peoples' Choice Award  
2008 & 2010.
Gold Coast Show Visual Art Peoples' Choice Award,  2010
Trinity Lutheran College Art  Competition First Prize,  2010
Swell Sculpture Festival Gold Coast Sun Media Award,  2006
Paradise Kids Annual Art Exhibition First Prize Sculpture & Peoples' Choice, 2005
Royal Brisbane Show Freestyle Sculpture Prize,  2005
Sculptor’s Society Gold Coast  Member’s Exhibition, First, Second & Third Prizes 2005
Sculptor's Society Gold Coast Exotic Erotic Exhibition First Prize, 
2005
Springfest Arts and Craft Festival Award for Sculpture-First Prize, 2005, 2006 & 2007
St Margaret’s Inaugural Sculpture Competition First Prize,  2006

​Installations and Collections
Represented in private and public collections, in Australia and overseas, including:
Jackman Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne
Ripley's "Believe it or Not" Museums in USA, Australia and UK. 
Capanart Gallery, Tamborine Mountain, Gold Coast, QLD
19 Karen Contemporary Artspace Mermaid Beach, Gold Coast, QLD
​Lion Pride Lands, Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo, NSW.
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Exhibitions

2014 Gold Coast Airport, QLD.
2013 and 2018 Woodford Folk Festival, QLD
2013 Gold Coast Arts Festival,  Evandale, QLD
2013 Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Melbourne.
2012 Gold Coast Arts Festival Broadwater, QLD
2010 Border Art Prize, Murwillumbah, NSW.
2009 Sculpture by the Sea, Cotttesloe, WA.
2008  Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, NSW.
2008  Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, SA.
2008 Jackman Gallery Group Sculpture Exhibition, S.A.
2008  Kings Christian College Easter Arts Exhibition, QLD
2007  Solo Exhibition, Jackman Gallery, Melbourne , SA.
2006 Royal Pines Resort "Sisters of Swing". QLD.

​Other

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